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 Soda Fountain 
 
 SUCCESSOR TO 
 
 JAM ELS W. TUFT 
 
 SODA 7 FO UNT A. INS 
 CA RB ON A TORS and 
 SUNDRY SUPPLIES 
 
 278-288 CONGRLSS STREET 
 <nSJQBOSTON, NASS.>2s^ 
 

 
STORY is told of a farmer who was approached by a man who 
 wanted to sell him a bicycle. “ Now is your time to buy,” 
 said the man ; cc bicycles never were cheaper; I can let you have 
 one for thirty-five dollars.” cc l’d sooner put the money in a 
 cow,” said the farmer. cc Oh, I know you could get a cow for that money,” 
 said the man, “ but think how foolish you’d look riding around your farm 
 on a cow!” “Wal,” replied the farmer, “I don’t know as I’d look any 
 foolisher doin’ that than tryin’ to milk a bicycle! ” 
 
 Nowadays the druggist or confectioner who tries to get along without 
 a soda fountain looks about as foolish as the farmer would have in trying to 
 milk his bicycle; while the man who convinces himself that his old style, 
 inadequate and messy fountain is good enough for the business he does is 
 akin to a man riding a cow. It can be and has been done, but it looks 
 foolish. 
 
 In both cases we prescribe a Tufts fountain. 
 
The Tufts is the highest grade of all soda fountains. To the druggist 
 or confectioner who has never had a fountain in his store, a “Tufts” will 
 seem a wonder worker in the way of bringing new business and plenty of it. 
 The man who exchanges his old out-of-date apparatus for one of our 
 beautiful new style fountains will make a wise move, because, 
 
 First: The Tufts fountains are mechanically perfect. There is no dripping, no messing, no 
 chance of breakdown about a Tufts fountain. 
 
 Second: They are beautiful, artistic and thoroughly practical. They are designed by the 
 best artists in this line, whom we keep constantly employed in embodying new ideas in the outward 
 beauty of our fountains. 
 
 Third: Only the very best of material is used in a Tufts fountain, whether it be the marble, 
 onyx and silver plating you see on the beautiful exterior, or the tubing, the valves and the tanks 
 that are hidden within—all are of the best material, made in the best way. The Tufts fountains are 
 made on honor—the honor of forty-seven years of integrity and endeavor. 
 
 In other words, for nearly fifty years we have been trying to make the Best soda water 
 apparatus. In all these years we have spared no pains or expense that the word “ Tufts” should be 
 synonymous with par excellence. 
 
 This object we have attained and shall maintain. 
 
A good tale is worth retelling; let us tell you again a few brief facts 
 about the excellent materials and good workmanship that go in the making 
 of a Tufts fountain : 
 
 Our syrup tanks are of porcelain or block tin. In the latter the joints are burned with 
 block tin, and not soldered. You can have your choice, but we recommend the block tin as being 
 wholly hygienic and no chance for contamination of syrups. 
 
 Our draught tubes are made of high-grade brass composition with substantial valves. Out¬ 
 side they are heavily plated with pure silver, and inside, in every part which the soda comes in 
 contact with, they are lined with pure block tin, either cast in and bored out or by pipe, drawn 
 and burned in. 
 
 Our coolers embody the ceaseless experimenting of over forty years. We do not hesitate 
 to say that with the Tufts fountain colder soda water can be served than with any other make. No 
 matter what demand is made upon it by custom that it creates and increases, as long as a Tufts foun¬ 
 tain is iced according to the simple directions it will serve “just above the freezing point” one 
 glass or ten thousand. 
 
 As to its exterior, you can tell a Tufts fountain by its Style. Other manufacturers may 
 take advantage of the brains of our designers by imitating the architecture and decorations in their 
 
fountains, but imitators can never equal the original, and there is about a Tufts fountain an elegance 
 that copyists cannot attain. We keep our designers stimulated to their best efforts by every incen¬ 
 tive an appreciative employer can show, and while we have been proud, and justly so, of their 
 efforts in the past, we can truthfully say that for symmetry and beauty the new designs for the 
 coming season are a distinct advance over all their previous efforts. 
 
 We invite comparisons with other makes, for the more you investi¬ 
 gate the others, the more surely will you be brought to buy a Tufts fountain. 
 
 Write us for our large portfolio of prints showing many more of our 
 new and popular designs. 
 
 We will treat you fairly. Our prices are low, we will make easy 
 terms and we will take your old fountain, if you have one, in exchange at a 
 liberal valuation. 
 
 AMERICAN SODA FOUNTAIN CO., 
 Successor to James W. Tufts, 
 
 278-288 Congress Street, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
Jimak 
 
 T HERE is only one mistake you 
 can make in getting a Tufts 
 fountain and that is in getting 
 one just big enough to meet the de¬ 
 mands of your present trade. For the 
 glistening, magnificent, thirst-provok¬ 
 ing, thirst-satisfying Tufts fountain will 
 double, treble and quadruple your cus¬ 
 tom. This is the mistake many have 
 realized and they have exchanged for a 
 larger one. There is no wear-out to a 
 Tufts and in consequence we have on 
 hand a lot of excellent fountains second¬ 
 hand only in name. These were 
 shortly found to be too small for the 
 business of the man in the big town or 
 exceptionally fine location, but they 
 may be just what You want. Write 
 to us about them. The Tufts guar¬ 
 antee goes with these, too. 
 
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 VTOTHING is more wonderful than the development of the soda water business. Compare the 
 fountain of to-day with the fountain of ten, twenty, thirty years ago. Tufts did it. 
 
 Great as the soda water business has grown, it is only yet in its infancy. It will develop 
 greatly year by year. Get a fountain thft will be apace with the improvement; the Tufts fountain 
 made to-day has the improvements of fye-yea^|r<?'rn now. Five years is the time we allow 
 for other makes to catch up with us. P • 
 
 In gay Paree, as you may see, 
 The gallants and the fair 
 Sip claret, cognac and absinthe, 
 Benedictine, creme de menthe— 
 As they dine al fresco there. 
 
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 “ 'T'HE satisfied man stands still,” says the Peru- 
 A vian proverb. He who goes on from lesser 
 things to greater is the man who is dis¬ 
 satisfied with what he has and what he does. 
 
 This is not the gospel of discontent, for there 
 comes a time when the wise man is almost content 
 with what he does and what he has. 
 
 We ask your attention and we desire to arouse 
 your interest : Are You Satisfied ? 
 
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 Have you no soda fountain, and are you con¬ 
 tent with the business you are doing ? 
 fk, Have you a soda fountain that is out of style, 
 our of date and altogether inadequate—are you satis- 
 feed with the business it is doing ? 
 
 If In either case we ask you to inquire into the 
 Bgrits of a Tufts fountain. 
 
 Get a Tufts and be Satisfied. 
 
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 You need a fountain that is good enough and big enough to supply your present trade and 
 the added amount that is coming to you. For your Tufts fountain will draw you added custom 
 ■day by day. 
 
From Istamboul to Ispahan, 
 
 In mosque, bazaar and caravan, 
 
 Behold the turbaned Mussulman ! 
 
 He drinks no wine to make him merry ; 
 His is the beverage of the berry 
 Coffea Arabica, and all day long 
 He drinks it hot and black and strong. 
 
 NE of the greatest boons that civilization in its progress has given 
 to an enlightened land is healthful, thirst-quenching, ever-delightful 
 soda water, fruit-flavored. It is the handmaid to Moderation and 
 the foster-sister of Temperance. 
 
 For the cause and continuation of true temperance, what factor has been 
 great as the soda fountain ? 
 
A PICTURESQUE old Irishman tramping along the high- 
 way was stopped by the professor in charge of the sketch¬ 
 ing class from a young ladies’ finishing school. “ If you are 
 not in a hurry,” said the professor, “ these young ladies 
 would like to paint you.” “ No, thank yez,” said the Irish¬ 
 man. “ Don’t go, my good man,” continued the professor, 
 “ we will pay you well, and it will not take over half an 
 hour.” “It isn’t the time I’m mindin’,” answered the Irish¬ 
 man, “ but how the divvle am I going to get the paint off?” 
 
 Many druggists and confectioners when approached about 
 buying a soda fountain are almost as puzzled as the old Irish¬ 
 man about being painted. They invariably reply: “ My busi¬ 
 ness brings me in little enough now, how am I to pay for a 
 soda fountain?” It is hard to make them understand that a 
 good soda fountain Will Pay for Itself and more besides. 
 
 Edison 
 
There is no business that pays better than the dispensing of soda 
 water. The profits are large of themselves, and if you sell other things 
 in your store, a soda fountain brings custom for those other things. 
 
 
 In semi-tropical Mexico 
 The natives a curious liquor know 5 
 A fiery drink which they get when they tap 
 The cactus plant for its pulque sap. 
 
 Bellingham 
 
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 A N out-of-date and- ugly fountain of chipped, 
 cheap marble, with tarnished trimmings and 
 soda faucets that leak messy drippings will drive 
 fastidious patrons (and all soda drinkers are fas¬ 
 tidious) to the enterprising man who has a bright, 
 clean, modern Tufts fountain. 
 
 Nome 
 
 Here on the steppes with their deep drift snows, 
 The tavern is warm and the vodka flows. 
 
 The moujik quaffs it and says with zest, 
 
 “ Of all drinks known, my vodka ’s best ! ” 
 
W hile you keep your worn-out old fountain you are saving 
 the price of a new good fountain, and new and good 
 fountains cost money, but you are losing the price of a fine foun¬ 
 tain every month in dwindling away of old customers and the 
 dissatisfaction of new ones—who never come again. 
 
 The installing of a handsome and artistic new Tufts foun¬ 
 tain makes talk in your town. Favorable comment is a fore¬ 
 runner of growing business. A Tufts fountain, bright and 
 tempting of itself, draws the waverer in through the door. It 
 pays for itself, as a specialty, for the trade it attracts to your 
 staples. 
 

 Sannak 
 
 VT O business to-day affords a greater legiti- 
 ^ ^ mate profit than the dispensing of soda 
 water, and yet when you draw it from a 
 Tufts fountain you give such satisfaction to 
 your patrons that none would begrudge you 
 did they even know what your profits were. 
 
The land of kilts and blooming heather, 
 
 In winter knows some blustery weather, 
 
 And Highland laddies see no harm 
 In drinking “ Scotch ” to keep them warm. 
 
 EMEMBER, a Tufts fountain, first, through its 
 beauty, and second, through the excellence of the 
 delicious soda water it serves, will bring you a constantly 
 increasing custom of pleased patrons and will pay 
 for itself out of part of its own profits. 
 
 A Tufts Fountain Brings the Trade 
 You are Proud to Have. 
 
 Let it be the “ other man” who serves 
 bad soda badly and wonders why his custom 
 dwindles. 
 
Merida 
 
 >TpHE fool is always behind, the smart man is always 
 abreast, and the business genius always ahead of 
 the times. This is comparatively estimating the drug¬ 
 gist and confectioner who have and who have not 
 soda fountains. The fool has none, the smart man 
 may have a fairly good make, but the business genius 
 has a Tufts. 
 
 If you examine a Tufts fountain first and others 
 afterwards you will buy the Tufts. If you examine 
 pother makes first and the Tufts last you will buy a 
 iTufts. We invite the comparison, but only ask, in 
 all fairness, that you inquire about the Tufts first or 
 last. For if you do, first, last and all the time, you 
 will be a Tufts enthusiast. 
 
Here sit philosopher and sage 
 
 O’er foaming steins to cheer their age, 
 
 And loud the “hochs! ” and “ prosits! ” ring 
 In Germany, where beer is king. 
 
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 Taclat 
 
 T here is no trade so fastidious as that to 
 which the soda fountain caters. The best 
 trade seeks the best service. The soda fountain 
 of itself should be fitted and furnished with an 
 eye to the beautiful as well as the useful. All 
 its adjuncts, its counters of marble, its glasses 
 and glass holders, should be shimmering bright, 
 conspicuously clean and noticeably neat. The 
 very appearance of a fountain and its surround¬ 
 ings should provoke a tantalizing thirst, and the 
 soda served from it should be soul-satisfving. 
 Our counter supplies are made to meet the par¬ 
 ticular requirements of the soda counter and 
 bring it in harmony with the fountain. 
 
 Don’t consider these details trifling, 
 
OR more than forty-seven years the firm of James W. Tufts has 
 been making soda water fountains and their adjuncts. Although 
 we have always led in this branch of manufacturing, we will sav 
 frankly that we never were wholly satisfied; year after year we experi¬ 
 mented, made over and improved. All the results of this nearly half 
 
 In the country of pigtailed “ Boxers ” see 
 Coolie and Mandarin drinking tea ; 
 
 High and low, of every degree, 
 
 Taking it plain—“ No sugar for me 
 Or cream ! ” says the almond-eyed Chinee. 
 
a century are yours to-day. The fountains we make, the specialties we 
 furnish, the machinery we manufacture are the highest attainments in 
 this line known to the world. We make everything that is used in 
 connection with soda water. Carbonators to give life to the water, juices 
 and extracts to give it taste, and apparatus to dispense it in perfection— 
 , cold and delicious. 
 
T HE TUFTS AUTOMATIC CARBONATOR for dispensers is a mar¬ 
 velous self-running machine that does away with the portable tank nuisance. 
 The profits in dispensing soda water are good, but if you have a Tufts 
 Automatic Carbonator you double them, for you are making your own soda water 
 and saving this expense. It serves, continuously, soda water at any pressure you 
 desire from 80 to 180 pounds. The pressure is always even, and the machine auto¬ 
 matically keeps five gallons ahead of the demand. No rock¬ 
 ing, no agitating, no waste of gas by blowing off, no valves 
 to turn. It starts and stops of itself, and the supply is always 
 an even amount at an even pressure and an even saturation— 
 
 97 per cent. You attach it to your hydrant and the 
 city water pressure is sufficient to operate it. Where you 
 have no water pressure it can be run by electricity. Your 
 soda never gives out and it is of the highest grade. Unless 
 the Tufts Automatic Carbonator is all we say, you need not 
 accept it. Write us and find out how inexpensive this 
 little mechanical marvel is. You do not even have to oil it. 
 
 AMERICAN SODA FOUNTAIN CO., 
 
 Successor to James W. Tufts, 
 
 278-288 Congress Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
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 T3UT the land of the free and the home of the biave 
 Is the land of the sparkling drink I crave. 
 
 Better than vodka, beer or wine 
 Is this nectar-flavored drink of mine. 
 
 It flows from a glittering fountain fair, 
 
 All marble and silver shining there : 
 
 ’Tis soda water superfine, 
 
 Cold and delicious drink divine ! 
 
 And here is a toast as we drink it down : 
 
 “A health to Tufts of Boston town ! ” 
 
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